Quotations, Memes and Jokes - Top 10 things showing Cambridge is seriously weird space/time vortex

[jack]

1. 300m is a long way
   
2. 10am is early.
   
3. Four years is an eternity.
   
4. Sundry Lovecraftian beasts roaming CUWOCS.
   
5. It's possible for no route between two points to be the shortest¹.
   
6. Whenever I start, and where-ever I'm going, and however fast I go, I'm 5 min late.
   
7. No-one can leave.
   
8. Someone invented differential manifolds.
   
9. Trinity Street, Bridge Street, and All Saints Passage each meet at right angles, but form a triangle.
   
10. I saw a bus going to March.

[1] Even when there a finite number of routes. If you allow the possibility of an infinite number of routes I *think* compactness is the criteria that makes it absurd, but I'm not sure. Comments?

Comments

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Trinity Street, Bridge Street, and All Saints Passage each meet at right angles, but form a triangle.

This is because the earth is a sphere :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It would have to be a *little* sphere. That would explain why you can't get out of cambridge.

But you'd be able to *see* it :)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

:-)

BTW, who is sonic drift? I'm quite happy to friend them back if I have a clue who they are ..

[rochvelleth.livejournal.com]

Just had to add more...

11. It's conceived as geeky rather than weird to speak Elvish.
12. If you're walking *to* the Sidgwick Site from King's, it's shorter to go up West Road, but if you're going the other way Silver Street is shorter.
13. It's always really hot nd blisteringly sunny *or* absolutely freezing and possibly snowy, but never anything in between.
14. It's more difficult trying to stay on at the university (where you already know everyone and they're aware of your intellectual merit) than it is to get in.

[naath.livejournal.com]

The distance thing is probably the slope and the wind...

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

True. I'm going to have to do a version B with all the added ideas.

On the other hand, I'm unsure how space/time distortion makes Elvish less weird. Perhaps its a critical mass of geeks.

[the-aviator.livejournal.com]

Us smart Churchillians took advantage of this. Consider:

Churchill to Magdalene:
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a) North through Fitz (flatish), turn right, go *down* Castle Hill (very steep, quite long)
b) East along Madingley Road. Flat all the way.
Obvious Solution, go in to town downhill via Fitz and come back on the flat along Madingley Road. Someone should install a perpetual motion machine to help the colleges efficiency drive.

Clerk Maxwell Road
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Uphill both ways. Conservation of energy implies that the energy must be going *somewhere*. Perhaps to get people westwards along Madingley Road in leiu of it being uphill? Perhaps to heat the "modern and efficient" West Cambridge site? One explanation I've heard is that this phenomenon is due to the captive black hole in the Cavendish.